GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN PEDAGOGICAL INTERVENTION: INTERTWINING SOCIAL CONCEPTIONS OF YOUNG GIRLS

Abstract

 This article is the result of a review of a collaborative/educational pedagogical intervention project carried out with a group of young girls living in a temporary shelter unit, namely “Casa Lar”. Guided by issues involving sexuality and gender relations, the work triggered the prospect of collecting knowledge and experiences from the target audience. The aim was to analyze the effects of social interventions focused on the affective/sexual trajectory in a cultural analysis of youth narratives. The intervention was carried out through lectures and a sequence of collaborative teaching activities relating and portraying gender and sexuality. Amidst the collaborative dialogicity of the young women, this project allowed the girls to have diverse expressions in relation to sexuality, such as historical and cultural discursive constructions in a way that effectively created spaces for problematization so that they could think of new ways of understanding their bodies, as well as social experiences in gender and sexuality relations.